2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in New Jersey

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Jersey, there were 245 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 60 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in New Jersey

1

Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey

#10 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rowan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey list. Glassboro, New Jersey is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Rowan University General Engineering Report

2

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey

#2 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevens Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey list. Stevens is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hoboken, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.